Los zapatos del inmigrante y otros escritos (The Shoes of the Immigrant and Other Writings) is a book written in Spanish that summarizes more than a decade of journalistic work on the topic of immigration in the United States.

The book presents different aspects of the life of immigrants that include employment, education, economy, language and discrimination, among other social issues that affect in one way or the other the experiences of millions of people who left their countries of origin to try to improve the quality of their lives.

In spite that the vast majority of immigrants arrive to the U.S. with the best intentions, this book proves that many of them get tangled in situations that represent the exact opposite of what they imagined when they migrated,

Author Eduardo Barraza, a journalist and photographer for more than two decades, analyzes the cases of jailed undocumented immigrants, day laborers waiting for work on the streets, a teenager killed by police, a homeless immigrant who becomes a great artist, and others that reveal not necessarily the "American Dream" but the reality of the immigrant experience.

The book includes photographs that show diverse aspects of immigrants in the United States in the context of the U.S.-Mexico border.